at the request of @miles854, here's my receipt from the time i met kurt cobain at a del taco.
here's the story. i went with my mother to go buy a grilled chicken taco because we had a mutual hankering for some good grilled chicken taco. where else to get grilled chicken taco good than a del taco??? as we walk in and sit down with our meal, my mother points out some blond-long-haired guy sitting down and whispers to me if it's that singer from the nirvana band i liked. i laughed because i thought it was a joke, but i caught his distinctive piercing blue eyes looking delicately at the queso crunch he was savouring so much. i low-key freaked out; what was kurt cobain doing in a del taco? with the help of my mother, i somehow mustered up the courage to walk over to his table. i sheepishly asked, "excuse me, are you kurt?" he looked at me like a deer in headlights for a few seconds, still chewing his queso crunch like it was nobody's business, before swallowing and answering "i get that a lot." figuring i got the wrong guy, i panicked and quickly apologised, but before i could run off, he said he was only kidding. i was indeed meeting the real kurt cobain, oh lucky day! i told him how much i loved the nirvana mtv unplugged concert and how it was so much better than pearl jam's. he took the compliment pretty well. i then asked if nirvana would ever reunite and he said he was working on a lot of projects right now, then talked about some new garage band he was in or something and said he was eating just before he was getting to a gig and proceeded to read out to me a flyer he'd written advertising it (it was his master copy, so he couldn't lend it to me and i'd already forgotten everything about the band as soon as i was done with my del taco grilled chicken taco), but said he was on good terms with krist novoselic and would consider it and thanked me for my feedback. on the spot, i figured i'd want a memento of this occasion and asked him for a selfie. he hesitated for a while and said he doesn't really do the whole social media thing. he stared at me and fumbled some words like he was about to start a long-winded rant (i kept hearing him go, "inst-, insta-, back when i was- look, instag-", i think he was trying to talk about instagram?) but i think he figured i wouldn't get it and stopped himself. i asked him for an autograph instead. he still had his pen on him, the same he'd used on the flyer i think, and looking around for some paper, he grabbed his receipt and signed it. however, he smirked and remarked that it maybe wasn't "rock and roll" enough for me, so he wiped off the excess taco sauce from his mouth and then his stubble on it. he smiled as he gave it to me. i was flabbergasted and i thought for a moment that this was him being really rude to me to spite me for talking to him, but he was really insistent and seemed confused that i was hesitating to accept it. not knowing what to do, i took it and thanked him. he jokingly told me not to sell it on ebay as i went back to sit down with my mother. she thought the whole encounter was incredibly strange and doesn't seem to trust kurt after this venture. i was weirded out too, but i find it kinda funny now in retrospect.
